Some late thoughts of Boston's police riot last night

It's clear that mayors across The United States has no idea what to do about the Occupy Wall Street movement. They are very comfortable making their deals with Wall Street. They would really like to arrest the lot of protesters, give a couple of people a few knocks on the head but there is that pesky thing called the first amendment and every time they knock innocent people over the head they tend to multiply.

One has to wonder how many of those kids would still thank Mayor Menino for their bike rack

There was also a poster celebrating the Boston's police's role in trying to run down a fugitive slave during the days of the fugitive slave act.

The Anthony Burns story is told here. One captured runaway slave, assisted by the Boston Police Department, was captured at a cost of "hundreds of troops, $50,000 dollars and the death of one marshal."

The police deapartment has not been able to settle on a story as to why they did what they did. Were they protecting $100,000 dollars worth of plants? Or was it the old chestnut the anarchist story, who had infiltrated the movement, that they cooked up? Or maybe they just didn't want to lose one more patch of green space which would send a sign of weekness and give the image that the city was out of control? For many it brings to mind what happened to the bonus march, which I compared to the occupy movement in a earlier post in this blog

In this case it was American soldier with tanks turning on American veterans and it became one of biggest images of the depression

Last night it was their great grandchildren getting whacked over head, but at least they stood consistant by knocking around the veterans for peace too.